I'm a geek!

Ok, I couldn't do a spreadsheet if my life depended on it. I can't list the links of my favorite blogs, or anything else, but I went Hi-Tech today and bought a PDA. I just bought a Palm TX. I came home yesterday, and there was ANOTHER $650. in scholarship money, so I thought, "What the hell...". Now I need to know what software to buy. Obviously a drug guide will be necessary, but what else? Do any of you have any personal favorites or suggestions? I'd like something with good diagnosis info and interventions, but what else? It seems stupid to haul this thing around and not use it to it's full potential (please, please God let me be smart enough to figure out how to use it). Help me, I'm stupid. Well, not that stupid, because 6 weeks before the end of the semester, I have two A's and one B. Damn that clinical! The instructors say no one gets an A, but I have a 91%. So close! Anyway, none of the scholarships are from the school. You have to be on welfare for them to look at you, but my community came through, and the county selected me as one of the two scholarship recipients they choose each year, so YAY!! I'm feeling so short term rich!

Great time!

Remember I said that Saturday's would be mine. No books or school or studying. Friday I attended a conference for a school group in "the only big city in Indiana". My in-laws flew in and my husband picked them up and then picked me up from the meetings, and we went to the Indianapolis 500 Speedway and toured the museum, and rode all around the track in a little bus while getting the tour spiel. I'm not a racing fan, but it was pretty awesome. Then we had a nice dinner in the downtown area (Mexican!!! Ole!!), and checked into our hotel. We got up at the crack 'o dawn and drove to South Bend for the Notre Dame football game. We went really early to see everything on the campus and it was SO beautiful and the church was incredible. I don't think you need to be Catholic to appreciate it, but it's triple cool if you are! End zone seats, but they were in the stadium, and the Irish won! Just a really fun day. When we got home, there was $1400.00 in scholarship money I got for this semester and a letter that said as long as I take 12 hours and maintain a 3.0 GPA, it will be mine next semester too with no strings attached! What a good day!

Doesn't it figure?

We didn't move to the midwest voluntarily. Since we have Homeland Security and a war to pay for, there is no money in the budget for the silly, frivolous things like keeping violent offenders off the streets, so the budget for the Federal Prisons was slashed. My husband was told to find somewhere else to be, that the Medical Center he was working at was changing to a garden variety prison and the staff was going to be downsized, and this is where we landed. I love Ft. Worth. All the benefits and none of the pretentiousness of Dallas. We made the best of it, and since the cost of living here was so much lower than a lot of places, we landed here. Of course, I had to take some classes I didn't need in Texas, and lost some classes they required there, it made school a little longer, but what are you going to do? As my ex FIL said (he was an ATF agent), "I always went wherever they were sending my paycheck." Now, one year before I graduate, Hub got a call from a prison in Ft. Worth (there are three in the DFW area) asking if he wants to go to work there. Can you believe it? He told the administrator there that he would love to come back, but I don't graduate until next December. The guy said they weren't in a big rush, so he'll call back tomorrow and see if they'll hold the job open for that long without posting it so that we can move back home. The pisser is that I LOVED my house in Ft. Worth. It was a little cosmetically challenged when we bought it, and we spent 7 years remodeling it. My kitchen was a work of art. Now we'd have to live somewhere else. I'll probably drive past my pretty house everyday just to torture myself, cause that's my way. This is probably a tease, and it would be a huge imposition to be short staffed for a year just to wait for us to be able to move, but I want to go home so bad now I can taste it.

They have GOT to be kidding!

I got a letter today, and since I've been laying on my ass not studying for the Nursing test tomorrow, I had plenty of time to read it. In a nutshell, it said I was awarded a $250.00 scholarship (out of the MANY fine applicants, mmm), but because it's for nursing, I will have to work in Indiana as a nurse for two years after graduation. I don't think so. The state Nursing Scholarship Grant that would have paid for my tuition and books for the entire nursing program turned me down due to "lack of financial need". They also required two years, but for a free ride, I would have done it. Two years for $250.00 per semester? Whatever. My husband makes more than that on one shift at work, and they expect me to sell two years of my life for the equivelant of less than one days pay? Are they stupid? I don't give a shit if I plan on spending the rest of my natural life in Indiana, I still won't take their piece of crap scholarship. I went to a Student Government convention this weekend, and there were three members of the schools board answering written questions from the students. I wrote on my sheet.."Please explain why a 4.0 student who is active in Student Government, and Student Leadership Academy, and does extensive volunteer work in the community who is going into a career field with desperate shortages can't get any financial aid except for unsubsidized student loans? Please explain why there is NO merit based financial aid available for a student like me." They didn't read or answer my question. Do you think I was a little too hostile? Do you think I'm bitter?

Sometimes, I brake for a real life

Had a great Saturday. It was my husband's birthday, so we took off about 7:30am and went to some friends house. Their whole neighborhood has a bazillion yard sales, so we spent half the day there. I got a really nice drug book (2003, so not too old) for $.50. I like it a lot better than Mosebys. I got some other books and candles and bakeware. Then we went out to lunch with the friends. We then went to the mall so that my husband could buy video games and I got a new purse. I found the cutest messenger bag at Macy's. Carting bags with equipment, and a loaded backpack made it very hard to hold handles of a purse too, so now I can consolidate most of the equipment and purse stuff, and just sling it over my body which leaves my hands free. I love it! We bought gooey cookies and greasy hamburgers and had a junk food feast when we got home. My hub played his video games and I watched my tivo'd shows, and didn't even look at nursing stuff. I have a ton of stuff to do for school, and the next two days to do it, but I've made a vow that Saturdays belong to me. It really gives me something to look forward to when I feel overwhelmed.

Woohoo!!!

This has been the best few days. Saturday, I was done with studying. After the Pharm test last Friday, I needed some fun. My husband and I got up on Saturday, and drove into "Only Big City in Indiana". We went to the zoo and to a big garden next to it. Then we went to dinner to a nice restaurant and drove home. Sunday was spent with the kid. Church, lunch, and hanging out. Monday was a TV marathon with everything I've recorded for the last week, plus a bit of studying for the test in my nursing class today. I was prepared to not do well on the test since I spent very little time on preparing, but felt it was worth it to have some recreational time. I MADE A 94!!!!! I must be the best guesser in the world! I'm so happy right now that I could dance. Now I have to read for a quiz tomorrow, but right now, I feel like I can do anything.